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Epnb Featured Image Widget is a simple widget that allows you to display the featured image of the current post page in any widget area, such in sidebar. You can setup the size of the picture in the widget parameters by selecting one of the wordpress registered image size. If you want to extend the list of available sizes, you can download the wonderful plugin <a href="https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-image-sizes/" title="Add image sizes" rel="nofollow ugc">Simple Image Sizes</a>.

Epnb Featured Image Widget

Epnb Featured Image Widget is a simple widget that allows you to display the featured image of the current post page in any widget area, such in sideb …

Rickard Westerlind

Orangelab

Dramatically improve the quality of re-sized images by making WordPress use ImageMagick instead of standard GD image library.
Features
<ul>
<li>Preserve embedded color profile in re-sized image</li>
<li>Automatically recognize custom image sizes</li>
<li>Allow regeneration of existing images (optionally for selected image sizes only)</li>
<li>Configure image quality or use dynamically computed default value</li>
<li>Optimize different image sizes for either quality or size</li>
</ul>
Lnguages: English, French, German, Swedish, Turkish
Requires either ImageMagick binary or Imagick PHP module.
<h3>Contribute</h3>
Code repo available on https://github.com/orangelabweb/imagemagick-engine/

ImageMagick Engine

Maybe even better.  It uses ImageMagick Engine that is installed and allows me to easily regenerate all my images.

Works as advertised

The thumbnail regeneration could be a bit faster though. I have used it for longer than I can remember, at least 5 years.

Simple, functional

Improve the quality of re-sized images by replacing standard GD library with ImageMagick.

Epnb Featured Image Widget vs ImageMagick Engine